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Join internationally acclaimed playwright, screenwriter and novelist Joanna Murray-Smith in examining the personal act of creation for the 2024 Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture.
About Joanna Murray-Smith
Joanna Murray-Smith is an award-winning playwright and novelist. Her work has been translated in over two dozen languages and been produced all over the world, including on the West End, Broadway and at the Royal National Theatre in London.
The Melbourne Theatre Company has produced many of her plays including Berlin, Switzerland, Three Little Words, True Minds, Pennsylvania Avenue, Songs for Nobodies, The Gift, Rockabye, The Female of the Species, Ninety, Bombshells, and Honour.
Other plays include Dark River for the National Theatre of Portugal, L’Apartement, American Song, Day One – A Hotel – Evening, Fury, Rapture, Nightfall, Redemption, Flame, Love Child, Atlanta and Angry Young Penguins.
She has also adapted Hedda Gabler (State Theatre Company South Australia), Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage for Sir Trevor Nunn (Coventry/London) and A Doll’s House and Uncle Vanya (Ensemble Theatre). Most recently, her play about Julia Gillard, Julia, continues to tour Australia. The film of Switzerland, for which she did the adaptation, will be shot in Europe in 2025.
If you require a descriptive transcript for this video, please email us at websupport@slv.vic.gov.au.
Join internationally acclaimed playwright, screenwriter and novelist Joanna Murray-Smith in examining the personal act of creation for the 2024 Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture.
About Joanna Murray-Smith
Joanna Murray-Smith is an award-winning playwright and novelist. Her work has been translated in over two dozen languages and been produced all over the world, including on the West End, Broadway and at the Royal National Theatre in London.
The Melbourne Theatre Company has produced many of her plays including Berlin, Switzerland, Three Little Words, True Minds, Pennsylvania Avenue, Songs for Nobodies, The Gift, Rockabye, The Female of the Species, Ninety, Bombshells, and Honour.
Other plays include Dark River for the National Theatre of Portugal, L’Apartement, American Song, Day One – A Hotel – Evening, Fury, Rapture, Nightfall, Redemption, Flame, Love Child, Atlanta and Angry Young Penguins.
She has also adapted Hedda Gabler (State Theatre Company South Australia), Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage for Sir Trevor Nunn (Coventry/London) and A Doll’s House and Uncle Vanya (Ensemble Theatre). Most recently, her play about Julia Gillard, Julia, continues to tour Australia. The film of Switzerland, for which she did the adaptation, will be shot in Europe in 2025.
If you require a descriptive transcript for this video, please email us at websupport@slv.vic.gov.au.
